Anson B. Nixon Park Summer Concert Series
Free concerts are held on Wednesday evenings in the summer from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in a beautiful setting overlooking the pond. Bring a blanket or folding chair. Picnic suppers are catered by local restaurants. For last minute weather cancellation notices, check their Facebook page or call 610-444-1416.
Unionville High School Marching Band Camp—“Mirage” is this year’s show!
WHAT: Unionville High School marching band camp, where dedicated high school musicians and color guard begin their transformation into a precise, professional, synchronized unit. This year’s program, “Mirage,” depicts a desolate landscape with nomads roaming the dunes in a desperate search for water. The audience will view a unique collection of images in an unforgiving environment. The search culminates with a brilliant splash of blue completely drenching the field when water is finally discovered.
WHERE: Unionville High School, 750 Unionville Rd. (PA Route 82), Kennett Square, PA
WHEN: August 11-15, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; August 18, 1-8 p.m.; August 19, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
August 20, 8 a.m.- 12 Noon. Special field show presentation for parents and friends Wednesday evening, August 20 at 8 p.m.
WHY:
● High school students and staff give up the last few weeks of summer vacation to work hard, help each other, make incredible music and learn the rewards of striving as a team toward a shared goal. Your audience will enjoy a positive take on our teenagers.
● Cover the band now and enjoy follow-up pieces all season long, including rocking the stands during UHS football games, ongoing outdoor rehearsals and competitions.
● Interview opportunities with the drum major, student musicians and color guards, Director G. Scott Litzenberg, drumline staff and volunteers.
● Learn about the upcoming March on the Brandywine, a Cavalcade of Bands, Inc. adjudicated band competition hosted by Unionville High School on Saturday, October 18 at 6 p.m. It’s a festive, family-friendly evening with a full slate of high school marching bands performing in competition.
● Enjoy wonderful music and synchronized movement. Many of the performers have been part of select regional ensembles. They are serious about their instruments and it shows. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.
HOW: Contact Jo-Anne Darragh at 610-637-3497 or at [email protected] for more information. We look forward to seeing you on the field! Thanks!
9AM Thursday August 21
FEE:$50
3615 Silverside Rd
Wilmington, De
302-478-4343
Score Report Handout Meeting: To Be Determined During this mandatory Parent/Student Meeting, Huntington will release the individual results, explain the ACT vs SAT, discuss scoring, and help pinpoint areas of potential improvement.
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SPACE IS LIMITED!
REGISTER ONLINE AT
Huntingtonexamprep.com
Select: Practice test Enter zip:19810
Cooking & Crafts Workshop
4 Thursdays: July 31-August 21, 2014, 3:30-4:45pm
Darlington Arts Center
977 Shavertown Road, Garnet Valley, PA 19060
(610) 358-3632
Cost: $115
For Ages 5-8. Young chefs will learn to prepare and cook delicious and nutritious snacks, while creating food-inspired artwork and crafts to take home, as well as books full of their new favorite recipes. Discover your inner chef while trying new foods! Bon appetit!
*Pre-registration is required. Call or visit us at www.darlingtonarts.org to sign up!
Our Summer Concert Series
So bring your kids, blankets and lawn chairs. The concert starts at 6:30 until dusk.
Don't miss this prodigy and finalist from America's Got Talent as she performs in our Open Air Theatre for a PBS concert taping.
See and hear this amazing young soprano who won runner-up on America's Got Talent at 10 years old. Jackie, who is now 14, will perform selections from her upcoming CD release, Awakening, and other classical favorites and pop hits. Audience-goers get to be a part of a TV show—this performance is being recorded and will later be edited to create the one-hour TV special that will air in December on PBS in time for their Christmas Pledge Drive.
Tickets
Buy tickets online or by calling 610.388.1000 (additional fees apply for phone orders).
Tickets limited. Seating is unreserved. Doors to our Open Air Theatre open at 6:30 pm. By purchasing this ticket you are giving Longwood Gardens your permission to be filmed for PBS. In the event of inclement weather, every effort will be made to have the concert—however, a rain date has been scheduled for August 22.
More About Jackie Evancho
Jackie Evancho's first performance on NBC's variety show America's Got Talent left audiences and judges astonished that such a perfect soprano voice could come from a 10 year-old girl. It wasn't just her musical gift and her age that floored the America's Got Talent audience, but Jackie's presence, poise, and charm that truly made them take notice. One of the show's judges, Piers Morgan, exclaimed, "You've got the whole package." The young soprano from Pittsburgh won runner-up and launched her soon-to-be legendary career, signing with Columbia Records shortly thereafter. In a little over two years, Jackie's voice has won her millions of fans and her recordings have dominated the music and DVD charts.
Jackie's debut EP, O Holy Night, was released in November 2010 and became the year's #1 best-selling debut recording with sales exceeding 1 million copies and earning her a platinum certification. In June 2011, Jackie released her first studio album, Dream With Me. A mix of operatic arias, show tunes, and pop standards, it debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #2 and was certified Gold after only four weeks of release. Heavenly Christmas was released in November 2011 and became one of the top-selling holiday albums of the year.
Jackie has participated in the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C., where she sang—and delighted—President and Mrs. Obama.
Jackie released her third studio album, Songs From The Silver Screen, on October 2, 2012. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical charts and at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.
Most recently, Jackie has tried her hand at both acting and modeling. She made her acting debut on The Company You Keep. Legendary actor/director/producer Robert Redford cast Jackie to play his daughter in the thriller which came out in theaters April 2013. Jackie is currently recording her next studio album, Awakening, scheduled for a September 2014 release. This will be followed by a world tour.
AUTHOR JODI E. BYRNE ANNOUNCES A BOOK SIGNING FOR FIRST NOVEL IN DEAD LAND SERIES
THE EVENT WILL BE AT THE GALER ESTATE WINERY
LOCATED AT :
700 FOLLY HILL ROAD, KENNETT SQUARE, PA 19348
EVENT TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2014; SCHEDULED TIME IS 5-8PM
KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA (JULY 25,2014) Author Jodi E. Byrne will be on hand at the Galer
Estate Winery on Friday August 22, 2014 from 5- 8 PM for questions and book signing of her first
novel Dead Land, a Young Adult post-apocalyptic novel, published in December 2013.
The Dead Land series consists of 3 books including Dead Land, Hollow Land scheduled for release
December 2014 and Promise Land scheduled for release December 2015.
For more information, visit the website at
www.authorjebyrne.com
CONTACTS:
Author: Jodi Byrne, [email protected]
www.authorjebyrne.com
The Gables at Chadds Ford Open House
The Gables at Chadds Ford will be hosting an Open House to showcase our beautiful banquet space as well as the amazing vendors we work with! Whether you are planning a wedding, baby shower, business function or a rehearsal dinner this will be a great opportunity to tour The Gables and meet potential vendors.
Friday August 22nd from 5:00 – 8:00.
There will be complimentary food and drinks available, so come join the fun!
Participating Vendors
-Cakes by Kim
-Flowers by Le Style 25
-ME Photo & Design
-Dazzle Photography
-David Balick Photography
-Weld Photography
-Sparks Entertainment
-Brandywine River Hotel
-Timeless Gatherings
-Scratch Weddings -Kate Farley Design
-Bottle Pop Event Planning -Ruthie’s Eyes
-Fairfield Inn & Suites -Hilton Garden Inn
The Gables at Chadds Ford
423 Baltimore Pike
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
610.388.7700
Friday Night Happy Hour
@ The Market at Liberty Place
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Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles Burchfield |
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August 23 through November 16, 2014 Featuring more than 50 landscapes by this impassioned painter |
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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), Early Spring (detail), 1966-67, watercolor and charcoal on paper, 37 x 42 ¼", Burchfield Penney Art Center, The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Work by Charles E. Burchfield |
| (Chadds Ford, PA June 20, 2014) - The vibrant, visionary landscapes of Charles Burchfield (1893-1976), one of the leading American artists of the 20th century, are featured in a major exhibition of more than 50 paintings on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art from August 23 through November 16, 2014. Co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, the exhibition features works borrowed from museums and private collections across the United States, including the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the largest repository of the artist's work. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with essays by the co-curators, Audrey Lewis, associate curator at the Brandywine, and Nancy Weekly, head of collections and Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney. |
Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles Burchfield will provide a remarkable opportunity to examine the artist's luminous, personal interpretations of the world around him. "To spend even a moment with one of Charles Burchfield's hallucinatory watercolors is to experience the artist's visceral response to nature. Over a period of six decades, he explored the lyrical and technical potential of watercolor, becoming one of the most brilliant practitioners in the history of American art," said Thomas Padon, director of the Brandywine River Museum of Art.
A native of Ohio who spent much of his career in Buffalo, Burchfield was enthralled by the countryside from childhood, keeping detailed journal accounts of his observations and emotional reactions to his surroundings, a practice he continued throughout his life and which carried over into his paintings.
Vibrant with color, light and movement, his landscapes combine the real and fantastic, reflecting his immersion in the natural world and his response to the forces of nature. Burchfield infused his paintings with sensory reactions to the ephemeral effects of light, the sights and sounds of the weather, the seasons, the call of birds and the hum of insects. In 1915, he wrote "It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound."
Exalted Nature will span the breadth of the artist's career, tightly focused on his landscapes--from his early expressionistic compositions influenced by modernist movements first encountered during his student years at the Cleveland School of Art--such as Untitled (Gothic Window Trees), 1918--to his late visionary works representing his singular interpretation of the world--including Bee Hepaticas (circa 1962).
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Watercolor on paper, 35 x 47"
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Other highlights include Midsummer Caprice(1945), which beautifully conveys how the artist used visual devices and motifs to suggest sounds and movement in nature. Burchfield was fascinated with the noisy cicada throughout his career and makes the insect the focal point of the painting, exaggerating its scale and surrounding it with repetitive, curved lines to convey the thundering reverberation of its sound.
About this same time (the 1940s), Burchfield began reconstructing some of his early work--by pasting additional paper onto the margins and painting out to those new edges--in order to reconsider and re-explore themes that continued to move him, pushing his work to another level in which his visionary approach was predominant. These reconstructions were larger, louder and more complex than his previous work. Nighthawks at Twilight was begun in 1917 and revisited in 1949, when the artist enlarged it to 34 3/8 x 48 1/2 inches. Twilight was a particularly compelling time of day for Burchfield--he exulted in such transitory moments, whether it was from day to night or one season to the next. In this painting he creates an eerie and darkly foreboding atmosphere, making visceral the strength of the wind through the grass, flowers and trees, all bending, contrasted with the tree tops in dramatic silhouette, like lace, against the threatening sky. The misshapen clouds and nighthawks crowding the sky further heighten the sense of deep apprehension.
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Nighthawks at Twilight, 1917-49, watercolor on joined paper, 33 ½ x 47 inches. Flint Institute of Arts
One of Burchfield's last paintings, still on his easel at the time of his death in early 1967, is Early Spring, depicting the landscape around his home in Gardenville, New York (near Buffalo), where he had settled in the 1920s. The transition from winter to spring was one of his favorite themes. In this painting, Burchfield projects a mystical, dreamlike quality through the blurring of details of the flowers, treetops and sky. A luminous yellow halo line surrounds the tightly grouped trees recalling the nave of a cathedral and suggesting the spirituality that the artist found in nature. Spring always carried with it, for Burchfield, a sense of hope and sorrow--hope because spring represented renewal, sorrow because of the fleeting quality of its beauty.
This exhibition marks the first time Burchfield's work has been shown at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. A slate of multi-disciplinary events, lectures and other programs will take place during the run of the exhibition; for details, please visit the museum's website.
| At the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the exhibition has been generously sponsored by Chuck & Adriane Bowers in honor of Matthew DiSalvo, an artist and outdoorsman. Additional support was provided by Morris and Boo Stroud. After premiering at the Brandywine River Museum, the exhibition will be presented in Buffalo at the Burchfield Penney Art Center from December 12, 2014 through February 22, 2015. |
The Brandywine River Museum of Art, located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is open daily (except Christmas Day) from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for children ages 6 and older and free for children 5 and younger and Brandywine Conservancy members. Museum admission is free on Sunday mornings from 9:30 a.m. to noon through November 24. The museum offers guided tours of the Andrew Wyeth Studio, the N.C. Wyeth House and Studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which may be toured individually or on special package tours. For information, please call 610.388.2700 or visit brandywine.org.
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Saturday, June 28 from 2 - 3 pm
Every 4th Saturday of the month: June 28, July 26, & August 23
Chadds Ford Historical Society Barn Visitors Center
Kids ages 3 and up will love showing off their patriotic spirit this summer by creating festive red, white and blue crafts that are perfect for gift giving, décor and fashion accessories. Activities include: making flags, star mobile, salt dough ornaments and fish-tail bracelets using lucets. Please call the office at 610-388-7376 to register so we can have enough supplies at hand.
The Gables has live music every Sunday from 5-8pm on the patio. People have really been enjoying it, and we would like to get the word out even more! Here is the link to The Gables' calendar (http://thegablesatchaddsford.com/events/), with all the performers.
AREA YMCAS OPEN DOORS FOR FREE
TRY THE Y TUESDAYS
YMCA of the Brandywine Valley and YMCA of the Upper Main Line are opening the doors of all their branches to the public, free of charge, every Tuesday during the month of August - August 5, 12, 19 and 26.
Chester County residents are welcome to enjoy the pools, state-of-the-art cardio and fitness centers, gymnasiums, cycle studios, and group exercise classes. Free entry also includes unique amenities, such as the 24 tennis courts at Upper Main Line Y or the climbing tower and skateboard park at the Kennett Y.
All nine branches – Brandywine Y, Coatesville; Jennersville Y, West Grove; Kennett Area Y, Kennett Square; Lionville Community Y, Exton; Octorara Program Center, Atglen; Oscar Lasko Youth Program Center, downtown West Chester; Upper Main Line Y, Berwyn; West Chester Area Y, West Chester; and Y at Great Valley, Malvern – will be open and available free of charge to anyone new to the area, considering a membership or just curious to see and use the facilities.
For more information, visit www.ymcabwv.org or www.umly.org.
Friday Night Happy Hour
@ The Market at Liberty Place
Glittering fireworks and colorful fountains light up the night sky and dance to exciting music on select evenings in the midst of our Gardens' lush, natural beauty.
Don't miss any of these exciting musical programs:
Rachmaninoff Power and Passion—August 30
This moving program spotlights the famed Russian composer’s Second Symphony.
Ladies & Gentlemen . . . The Beatles—September 13
Don't miss this show featuring music by one of the most popular and influential music groups of all time. The show opens with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, followed by the lyrical Penny Lane and the driving anthem, Help. The melodic Here Comes the Sun melds into the title song of the 1964 album, A Hard Day’s Night, followed by We Can Work It Out. The show continues with I Want to Hold Your Hand, followed by Something, Lady Madonna, and the lilting ballad Norwegian Wood. Let It Be and the moving The Long and Winding Road create a memorable finale.
Guests may reserve a space in the viewing area after 3:00 pm. For the best viewing experience, guests are encouraged to bring a lightweight folding chair. Rental chairs can be purchased for $5 each (while supplies last). In our efforts to create the best Fireworks & Fountains experience for all attendees, BLANKETS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.
In the event of inclement weather, every effort will be made to set off Fireworks as scheduled—however, two rain dates are scheduled for each display. The decision to cancel the show is made 15 minutes prior to show time.
End the summer in style with four days of Labor Day Weekend festivities. We do this every year and we'd love to see you all again. Spend some time wine tasting in the cellar, then relax on our patio and grounds with live musicians, wines and slushies by the glass from the outdoor wine bar and delicious foods from our food vendors and food trucks. No reservations required. Tasting are $10 for this event.
Food
Saturday 30th: Luigi’s & Giovanni’s
Sunday 31st: Justine’s Cuisines
Monday 1st: Justine’s Cuisines
Music
Saturday 30th: Hake & Jarema from 12:00pm-3:00pm; Alex & Shiloh from 3:30pm-6-pm
Sunday 31th: Nicole Ehinger from 12:00pm-3:00pm; "The Sermon!” from 3:30pm-6-pm
Monday 1st: Roger Girke from 2:00pm-5:00pm
Holiday Hours;
Sunday, August 31-Open for brunch at 10am, dinner at 4pm
Labor Day, Monday, September 1-Open for dinner from 4pm-9pm
Sundays in September-
During dinner on Sundays we offer a 3 course menu in addition to our regular menu. In September we are switching the menu up a bit. The following is our new 3 course menu that we like to call;
SURF SURF SURF & TURF
$39.95 per person
1st Course
Maryland Lump Crab and Arugula Crostini
2nd Course
Gulf Shrimp and Avocado Salad
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½ Butter Poached Cold Water Lobster Tail with a 6 oz. Petite Filet
Lobster mashed potatoes, haricot vert, BP Steak Sauce
Every Sunday in September starting 9.7.2014.
I hope to see you soon!
Michael
Holiday Hours;
Sunday, August 31-Open for brunch at 10am, dinner at 4pm
Labor Day, Monday, September 1-Open for dinner from 4pm-9pm
Sundays in September-
During dinner on Sundays we offer a 3 course menu in addition to our regular menu. In September we are switching the menu up a bit. The following is our new 3 course menu that we like to call;
SURF SURF SURF & TURF
$39.95 per person
1st Course
Maryland Lump Crab and Arugula Crostini
2nd Course
Gulf Shrimp and Avocado Salad
ENTREE
½ Butter Poached Cold Water Lobster Tail with a 6 oz. Petite Filet
Lobster mashed potatoes, haricot vert, BP Steak Sauce
Every Sunday in September starting 9.7.2014.
I hope to see you soon!
Michael
CFBA 2014 September Event
Cocktails and Networking at Brandywine Prime
When: Thursday, September 4, 2014 • 5:00 to 7:00p.m.
Where: Brandywine Prime, Rtes 1 & 100, 1617 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford
Topic: Meet & Greet plus Brandywine Battlefield Award
Net proceeds from the Blue Rocks Baseball Benefit $1080.00 will be awarded to Friends of Brandywine Battlefield. The award will be matched by the Phyllis Recca Foundation.
Please note: The month of September all members are invited to have a stack of business cards or business brochures at Bryn Mawr Trust in Chadds Ford. CFBA is the highlighted the whole month of September.
Also in September 6 and 7 CFBA & Chadds Ford Live will have table at Chadds Ford Days – volunteer for table – and for sure stop by
Cost: $20 includes hors d’oeuvres & gratuity. Cash bar.
Please reply today by clicking here: [email protected].
You can pay with check or cash at the door OR click here to pre-pay online.
Your response gives us an accurate count for food. Thank you.
Friday Night Happy Hour
@ The Market at Liberty Place
4th Annual Comedy Showcase!
This year featuring
Also performing:
Jay Black has performed at nearly 500 colleges nati onwide. In 2013 APCA named him both the College Comedian of the Year and the presti gious College Performer of the Year. Jay has worked extensively as a club comedian, as well as, appearing everywhere from Atlanti c City (The Tropicana) and
Las Vegas (The Tropicana, MGM Grand) to Los Angeles (The Improv, The Laugh Factory). Jay has opened for several celebriti es, including Christopher Titus, Greg Fitzsimmons, Bobcat Goldthwait, Emo Phillips, Pete Holmes, and Sinbad. In the Spring of 2014, Jay will be joining Kevin Nealon on his east coast tour, appearing with him at several venues. Jay has met with equal success as a writer. The TV show he co-created with Brian Herzlinger (“Paulie” starring Paul Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, and Michael Madsen) was fi lmed in February of 2013. His fi rst produced screenplay, “How Sweet It Is” will be released into theaters in Spring of 2014.
Jay Black
Mike Casey
For Tickets:
Visit www.GMTROTARY.org (All major credit cards accepted)
Tickets will be available through Eventbrite.
For a reserved table of 10, contact Tony DiLeva at 610-656-2543
Proceeds benefi t Local Charities
NO TICKETS SALES AT DOOR! MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE
Tour more than 12 private gardens in West Chester
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the event
610-696-5211
Saturday, September 6 & Sunday, September 7
The 49th Annual Chadds Ford Days
Celebrating the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
An outdoor festival on the grounds of the Barn Visitors Center
This is a Chadds Ford Community event that features quality crafters and artists, outdoor activities, live entertainment, tours of the historic John Chads House, and so much more.
Adult admission is $5; Free to CFHS members. Kids, Dogs, & parking are also free.
Chadds Ford Days' schedule of events, please click here.
Sponsorship opportunities are available, please email [email protected] or call at (610) 388-7376
Saturday, September 6 & Sunday, September 7
The 49th Annual Chadds Ford Days
Celebrating the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
An outdoor festival on the grounds of the Barn Visitors Center
This is a Chadds Ford Community event that features quality crafters and artists, outdoor activities, live entertainment, tours of the historic John Chads House, and so much more.
Adult admission is $5; Free to CFHS members. Kids, Dogs, & parking are also free.
Chadds Ford Days' schedule of events, please click here.
Sponsorship opportunities are available, please email [email protected] or call at (610) 388-7376
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2014
Location: Northeastern Quadrant of Chester County
Benefits: The Women's Auxiliary's "Great Expecations" Pledge for Chester County Hospital
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Wednesday September 10, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
Join us for "60 Ways to Grow Your List" workshop - you'll leave with ideas and strategies to capture new contacts, grow your list and take action to help move your business forward. Having an interested and qualified list of contacts, that you can stay top of mind with, is vital to every business. Continuing to grow that list is just as important
Location: West Chester University Cottrell Center
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